On 2009-07-16 14:04-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2009-07-15 22:46-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >>> [...]To summarize the choice we can have >>> no soft landings or no cmake-gui. > > I have just committed (revision 10153) the hard-landing solution because > there is no way I wanted to have both ccmake and cmake-gui provide broken > language results such as found by Hazen and confirmed in detail by me. > > However, immediately after I did that commit, the CMake gurus on the CMake > list came up with a temporary workaround for bug > http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=9220. The workaround should > provide a soft landing for both the missing and broken compiler cases which > I think will work quite well. However, the implementation of this idea (to > run a simple cmake configuration from within cmake to check on each compiler > in question) is non-trivial so it will take me a while to finish with this > issue. > > So more later.
I believe I have now (revision 10157) finished this saga. The new soft-landing method (issue a warning message, disable that component of PLplot, and continue) when compilers are missing/broken seems to work well. For example, it appears to work both for cmake and cmake-gui. Please try it out. I have also enabled the D compiler by default since its examples are fairly complete and the bindings and examples build without issues. Previously, we were rather reluctant to enable a new language by default, but now that a missing/broken compiler only causes a warning, I believe the criteria for enabling a language by default do not have to be quite so severe as before. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
